Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” is among the inductees for the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday.
in Texas, as the day commemorates June 19, 1865, when 2,000 Union soldiers announced the news of freedom to enslaved people in Galveston.
Growing up in East Texas, her family often commemorated the day with picnics, she told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.“Mama and Daddy bought a house right over there,” Lee said in anwith the newspaper. “It was a nice house. The neighbors didn’t want us... They burned that place down.” This year, she received a portrait in the Senate chamber of the state Capitol. She is only the second Black woman to have her picture at the Capitol, joining the late U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan.
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